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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Jie Liu, Medina, WA (US);
Nissanka Arachchige Bodhi Priyantha, Redmond, WA (US);
Lucas N Joppa, Sammamish, WA (US);
Qiang Xu, Hamilton, CA;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for cloud-offloaded position calculation with on-device acquisition. One method includes operations for collecting raw global positioning system (GPS) signals for a set of positions, and storing in memory the raw GPS signals. The method further includes processing the raw GPS signals in batch mode at the computing device to obtain acquisition data for the positions, where the processing includes identifying tasks for parallel processing by a graphics processing unit (GPU), performing, by the GPU, the tasks in parallel by assigning each of the tasks to a core processor within the GPU, and combining results from performing the tasks to obtain the acquisition data. Additionally, the method includes an operation for transmitting the acquisition data to a server for calculating locations for the set positions at the server, the server storing the locations and making the locations available for location-tracking applications.